@dansup @mmn

well, the main reason why Pleroma isn't a GNU project is because the gnu.io initiative never got the support it needed from the GNU mothership. we believe in AGPL, software freedom and the overall principles of the gnu.io initiative, but if we have to build it ourselves, there's no point in being under the gnu.io umbrella: if we build it ourselves, the only "advantage" to being under the gnu.io umbrella is that others can come in and tell us what to do with the stuff we are building :)

it should also be noted that the GNU project also endorsed Mastodon as a possible replacement when Gargron took it AGPL.

so, I would like to believe that Stallman would be happy that there has been a movement to take back the social web in a way that propagates software freedom; the GNU project isn't the beginning or end of this movement. I also have the understanding that Stallman knows our reasons for this and accepts them.

finally, in my opinion, it's the movement that is important, not where it is located: if we are building our own organization to support the initiatives we are doing with Pleroma, then this is a logistical detail and is ultimately uninteresting and unimportant to the overall mission of propagating software freedom in this space